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We are delighted that students attending weekly lessons at Trefoil Tutors can use this towards the skills section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award! If you are pursuing Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards, please do get in touch with your tutor and we'd be happy to complete this section for you.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for the Spring Term has now begun.

We would like to take this day to celebrate the important men in our lives! Not only is November Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, but today is International Men’s Day.

The theme of this year’s International Men’s Day is “Zero Male Suicide”; the focus is to celebrate worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities, and to highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being.

For those students who are currently studying towards their GCSE and A Levels and who find themselves lacking materials for independent revision, our Lead English and Mathematics tutors have compiled a set of past papers for AQA, Edexcel, OCR, OCR MEI and Solomon exam boards.

To access the past papers and mark schemes, please follow the link below:

In order to encourage students to explore different authors, styles and genres, as well as help them develop a love of literature, our Lead English Tutor Kishan has compiled a list of twelve book recommendations for each year group from Year 3 to Year 11.

The Primary Maths Challenge commences this week, with Year 5 and Year 6 students competing for gold, silver and bronze certificates across the country.

Anti-Bullying Week 2024 is coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. It will take place from 11th to 15th November 2024 and has the theme “Choose Respect”.

The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 11th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.

We would like to take this day to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedom. The team at Trefoil will be observing the one-minute’s silence at 11am, both today and during our lessons on Sunday morning.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a happy Guy Fawkes Day and Bonfire Night!

Did you know that November is the month to read more non-fiction?

As part of the National Non-Fiction Month, children are invited to create their own postcard and win a selection of non-fiction books.

To read more about this year's theme - ‘Wonderful Water’- please visit the Federation of Children's Book Groups website, which includes a list of activities and over 100 non-fiction book suggestions for children:

Happy reading!

We hope that all our students and their parents enjoyed a relaxing Half Term break. Today, Monday, the 4th of November, we resume the Autumn Term and welcome all our students back to our group lessons.

We look forward to seeing you all in our classrooms this week!

As our current Year 6 students near the final - albeit the most crucial - period of their 11+ journey, on Monday, 16th October, we held an 11+ Advice Evening for the parents of our Year 4 and Year 5 students who are embarking on their 11+ journeys now.

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the entrance examinations for John Lyon School in the coming weeks

We know you have worked hard preparing for your examinations. Now is the time to stay focused and remember the lessons learned during your revision and practice.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a peaceful All Saints’ Day.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very spooky Halloween!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very Happy Diwali!

To support our students' preparations for their 11+ examinations, our Lead Mathematics Tutor, Vivek Gathani, would like to share a selection of problem-solving questions with answers he has written for his students.

To access the problem solving questions and the corresponding answers, please follow the link below:

Trefoil Tutors are also holding 11+ mock examinations during the October Half Term, in November and December. If you would like to attend, please do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing our Registrar Esther at registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

For more information, follow the link below to visit our 11+ Mock Examinations webpage:

As we complete the first Half Term of the academic year, we are delighted to see students begin to establish good routines in their learning.

To access the holiday work questions and answers, please follow the link below: